Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

Pulled to the far side of the Galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Creators:

Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor

Stars:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson

Won 7 Primetime Emmys. Another 18 wins & 56 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim (170 episodes, 1995-2001)
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine (103 episodes, 1997-2001)
Majel Barrett	...	Voyager Computer (84 episodes, 1995-2001)
Jennifer Lien	...	Kes (70 episodes, 1995-2000)

Storyline

The Federation starship USS Voyager, chasing a band of Maquis rebels, enters the dangerous space nebula known as the Badlands. Both ships are transported by a distant space probe to the Delta Quadrant, 75,000 light-years from Federation space. Voyager's crew and the Maquis form an uneasy truce to rescue crewmen of both ships, kidnapped by the probe's builder, the powerful, dying Caretaker. The Maquis ship is destroyed in a battle with the warlike Kazons. To prevent a Kazon aggression against a helpless world, Voyager destroys the space probe. Without the probe, it will take 75 years for Voyager to travel back to Federation space. With the differences between them rendered meaningless by time and distance, The Federation and Maquis crews unite aboard Voyager. Together, they embark on their new mission: to boldly go - home.

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Plot Keywords:

space | captain | hologram | doctor | borg | 

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Taglines:

Charting the new frontier [video cover tagline]

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Space [Canada]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Klingon

Release Date:

16 January 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Voyager

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television, United Paramount Network (UPN)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min 45 min (172 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The series helped launch, and served as something of a flagship program for the United Paramount Network. This was not the first attempt at such as in the late 1970's Paramount announced plans to launch a new television network with a Star Trek revival series as its flagship show. The original Paramount Network never materialized, but the proposed Star Trek series laid the groundwork for Star Trek The Motion Picture, and served something of a basis for Star Trek The Next Generation.

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Goofs

Throughout the series, the number of crewmen on Voyager has fluctuated despite the fact that several have died over the course of the series, and only around eight have been added. The number of the crew has been as few as 125 and as many as 160.

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Quotes

[after Seska is unmasked as a Cardassian spy]
Seska: I did it for you. I did it for this crew. We are alone here, at the mercy of any number of hostile aliens, because of the incomprehensible decision of a Federation captain. A Federation captain who destroyed our only chance to get home. Federation rules. Federation nobility. Federation compassion? Do you understand, if this had been a Cardassian ship, we would be home now. We must begin to forge alliances. To survive, we must have powerful friends. ...

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Connections

Referenced in Get a Life! (2012)

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Soundtracks

Music Score Composed, Conducted and Produced by Jay Chattaway

User Reviews

Not the worst, as some would have you believe, and really quite good

Contrary to what many Trek nerds would have you believe, Voyager is not the worst Star Trek series, and is not at all a bad show. The acting is superior to that on the beloved The Next Generation (that comment alone will probably have people throwing their Spock ears at their monitors), and I think many of the stories were better. TNG stories always seemed to revolve around spacial anomalies and holodeck malfunctions, which became excruciatingly boring. I wasn't interested in seeing Picard dressed up like Sherlock Holmes and trying to solve a fake mystery, only to be trapped on the holodeck and have the safety mechanisms shut off. As many times as this happened, I would have shut the silly thing down and prohibited its use.

Voyager was so great because it truly put its protagonists into a situation that they could not extricate themselves from. For the first time since the original 1960's series, Star Trek characters truly went where nobody had gone before, discovering new races and acquiring knowledge. And they couldn't call on the federation to save them.

And no doctor has ever been as good in his role as Robert Picardo. That even includes DeForest Kelly, who was exceptional.

Jennifer Lien was also outstanding as Kes, who was very much missed after her departure from the series.

Voyager brought back a lot of the adventure that was inherent in the first Star Trek series, and was lost in TNG. Perhaps it didn't live up to its enormous potential, but it was still a very good series that is, unfortunately, far to often the target of hate by TNG purists and people who like to pick at microscopic details.